different between dunt vs durt

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dunt, dynt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe, thud, the mark or noise of a blow, a bruise, noise, crash”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“shock, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?en- (“to beat, push”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt (“stroke”).

Noun

dunt (plural dunts)

1. (Scotland) A stroke; a dull-sounding blow.

Verb

dunt (third-person singular simple present dunts, present participle dunting, simple past and past participle dunted)

1. (Scotland) To strike; give a blow to; knock.

Etymology 2

Noun

dunt (uncountable)

1. (Britain, dialect) The disease gid or sturdy in sheep.

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• dun't

Contraction

dunt

1. (Yorkshire) Pronunciation spelling of don't.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

dunt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of dunnen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of dunnen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

dunt

1. past participle of dynja

Old French

Preposition

dunt

1. of; of which; of whom

Usage notes

• Like French dont, may be translated by of whom when it refers to a person and of which when it does not.

Descendants

• Middle French: dont
  • French: dont

English

Noun

durt (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of dirt.

Anagrams

• RTU'd, turd

Latvian

Pronunciation

Verb

durt (tr. or intr., 1st conj., pres. duru, dur, dur, past d?ru)

1. to stab
2. to thurst
3. to prick
4. to jab

Conjugation

Westrobothnian

Adjective

durt

1. neuter singular of dyr